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C. G. KING.

METHOD OF FORNHNG THE ORNAMENTAL' BODY OF AN EAR RING; APPLICATION FILED JULY 8.1919.

1,324,826. Patented Dec. 16,1919.

CLIFFORD G. KINGyOF PROVIDENCE, RHODE ISLAND.

METHOD OF FORMING THE ORNAMENTAL BODY OF AN EAR-RING.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Application filed July 8, 1919. Serial No. 309,369.

To all whom 2'25 may concern:

Be it known that I, OLIrFoRD G. KING, a citizen of the United States, residing at Providence, in the county of Providence and State of Rhode Island, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Methods of Forming the Ornamental Body of an Ear-Ring, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to that class of earring bodies which are of crescent form.

Heretofore these bodies have been made either by soldering together two crescent shaped shells, or by inserting a rod into a double tapering seamless shell. In both cases th body contains an internal space making it impossible to ornament the shellbccause of the absence of a sufficient backing to seat a stone or other ornament.

The essential ob ects of this invention are to enable stones or other ornaments to beapplied to the body, and to prevent the exposure of base metal at the ends of the body or in any place open to natural observation.-

To the accomplishment of the foregoing and related ends said invention, therefore, consists of the means hereinafter described, and particularly pointed out in the claims.

In th accompanying drawings which,

form a part of this specification,

Figure 1 is a longitudinal section of the constituent parts of the'new body as origi-' shell 11, preferably of precious metal- The.

tube is shorter than the rod and is preferably a close sliding fit within the latter.

The position of th assembled parts is shown in Fig. 1. In a reducing machine the opposite ends of the assembled parts are compressed, thus tapering the tube from its center or adjacent its center to its ends Q opening 16 is drilled through the shell 11 into the, core 10, as shown in Fig. 7, to snugly'retain andseat the conical back 18 of the ornament. The stone is retained in position by forcing the adjacent material of the shell over the edge of the ornament by a setting tool in the usual well known manner. The successful use of the setting tool is insured by the backing 10 which prevents the collapse of the shell adjacent the ornament.

An ear wire 20 may be attached to the body as follows. One end of the latter is longitudinally bifurcated by the slot 21 and has transverse perforations 23 to receive the pintle 24 of the eye wire. In the inner or under portion of the oppositeend of the body, as shownin Fig. 6, is a cavity .26 to receive the free end of the eye wire. I claim 1. The method of forming the ornamental body of an earring consisting of inserting into a tube a rod of less length than the tube,

then by compression tapering the assembled parts longitudinally from their centers to their ends andexpressing the material of the rod to fill said ends, and finally bending the tube into an incomplete ring,

2. The method of forming the ornamental body of an earring consisting in inserting into a tube as a sliding fit a rod of less length than the tube forming end spaces in the tube, next compressing the tube and rod,

a greater degree at the ends than at the cen- Patented Dec. 16, 1919.

ter whereby the shell is reduced at its ends to a point and therod is elongated to completely fill thespaces in the reduced ends,

and then bending the tube into the form of an incomplete ring.

In testimony whereof have aflixed my.

signature.

' CLIFFORD G. .KING. 1 

